ANTC32H3 Final: ANTC32 exam notes.docx
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Week two: origins of political anthropology and the problem of the stateless society. Remember its emergence in relation to colonialism and its effects. Human difference and the constitution of anthropology"s object of inquiry ( primitive society ) It is a sincere question because we can say all anthro is political and considered non-political. Anthro grew out of and worked alongside of making the country. The context and time period and the types of questions by being overlaid, political context of the world. The world of people who were governed and governing. What is the most important to that is if people started on human difference, anthro is interested in what the diversity is all about. The human difference in the world is shaped by colonialism. It had to be made in particular way. Division of the world into modern and primitive, 1st and 3rd world, etc. are relational terms, and one can"t exist without the other.
